Railway Institute
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The beating social heart of every Anglo-Indian railway settlement: home to billiard tables, Saturday night social dances, Christmas pageants, badminton courts, libraries, and legendary tea dances.
“Everyone in the colony will be dressed to the nines for the New Year’s Eve Ball at the Railway Institute.”
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The inland railway colonies, junction settlements, and cantonment towns across central and northern India where tight-knit Anglo-Indian communities lived in company quarters.
The ultimate disciplinary ultimatum barked by strict Anglo-Indian school headmasters, threatening immediate expulsion and issuance of a school Transfer Certificate.